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TIL Sean Connery used to polish coffins for a living

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4XwYw TIL serial killer Richard Ramirez spent time in his youth with his Vietnam Veteran cousin who spoke of his love for killing, polaroids of severed heads, and taught him military tactics until the cousin shot and killed his wife in front of Ramirez. He plead insanity and was not charged.
v1Bg7 TIL Jeffery Dahmer's 1st murder was committed just 3 weeks after graduating H.S. in 1978. The murder of Steven Mark Hicks wouldn't come to light until the 1990's after Dahmer had murdered 16 more people and was finally in police custody.
epAA6 TIL that the 9/11 attacks cost Cantor Fitzgerald 658 employees. The CEO, who that day was driving his kid to school, eventually gave the families $180 million and promised employment to all the victims' kids. As of 2016, Cantor Fitzgerald employed 57 of the kids.
1668O TIL that Icebreaker ships don't really crack ice with a sharp bow, rather they break it by first riding the bow up on top of the ice, and then crushing it to pieces underneath the ship's immense weight
4XKvN TIL that in the 1930s, dust storms were so severe that the static electricity generated would arc from your body to the nearest metal object and knock you head-over-heels. Two men shaking hands could literally knock each other out.